By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
The Pixar people continuously amaze me. They come up with something that actually looks as though it takes place in this happy,… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your… — Tim Wynne-Jones Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted… — Caroline Dhavernas Copy Share Image
It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv. — James Franco Copy Share Image
Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find… — Alexis Denisof Copy Share Image
Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be… — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a blast. — Drew McWeeny Copy Share Image
Whenever I've had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author's note, and I… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
